[Syonyk]

And the reason that works is because HN is mostly hosted on its own stuff, without weird dependencies on anything beyond "the servers being up" and "TCP mostly working."

[EddySchauHai]

I believe it's on AWS after its two servers broke at the same time the other day.

[jffry]

Yep

  $ host news.ycombinator.com
  news.ycombinator.com has address 50.112.136.166
  
  $ host 50.112.136.166
  166.136.112.50.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer ec2-50-112-136-166.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com.

[dang]

Temporarily, yes.